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  • January 1985 (Revised November 1985)
  • Background Note

Note on the Microcomputer Software Industry--January 1982

By: William A. Sahlman
Contains a history of the microcomputer software industry from the mid-1970s through early 1982. During that period growth was explosive. Many new companies were formed. However, the eventual structure of the industry was not yet clear. No truly dominant firms had... View Details
Keywords: Industry Growth; Business Strategy; Software; Computer Industry
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  • July 2009 (Revised July 2009)
  • Case

Blue Ocean or Stormy Waters? Buying Nix Check Cashing

By: Peter Tufano
Kinecta Federal Credit Union has the opportunity to purchase Nix Check Cashing as part of their "blue ocean" strategy to reach the financially underserved and increase credit union membership and deposits. But they face financial as well as reputational risk. Check... View Details
Keywords: Mergers and Acquisitions; Credit; Financing and Loans; Personal Finance; Strategic Planning; Partners and Partnerships; Reputation; Banking Industry; Financial Services Industry
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  • January 1999 (Revised April 2004)
  • Case

Infox System GmbH

Apax, a private equity firm, has an opportunity to invest in a travel-related print-materials distribution business in Germany. Infox is typical of many buyout opportunities. One of the founders seeks to exit the business, and recently hired managers will have to... View Details
Keywords: Private Equity; Leveraged Buyouts; Entrepreneurship; Investment; Financial Services Industry; Germany
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  • 24 Nov 2021
  • News

Great Resignation? Tech Workers Try a Great Reconsideration Instead

  • 05 Sep 2020
  • News

Piercing the Fog of Zoom

  • 13 Sep 2020
  • News

The Biggest Money Mistakes People Make in a Recession

  • 25 Mar 2020
  • News

Anne McElvoy goes out of office

  • 10 Feb 2017
  • News

How to negotiate the best job package

  • 08 Jan 2016
  • News

The Secret to Making Anxiety Work in Your Favor

  • 21 May 2015
  • Blog Post

3 Ways to Fund Your HBS MBA

helpful! HBS Fellowships HBS has an incredible need-based financial aid program. The administration firmly believes that funding should not be a barrier for anyone to attend business school and they ensure... View Details
  • 24 Jun 2019
  • Blog Post

Dance to the Music: How Noa Torok Found Her Dream Job at SoundCloud

Product Manager managing Hewlett-Packard's future platforms, Noa knew she loved technology but felt as she was still not pursuing her passion from an industry perspective. Yet for Noa, HBS wasn’t a place... View Details
  • 25 May 2011
  • HBS Case

QuikTrip’s Investment in Retail Employees Pays Off

flexibility: QuikTrip can easily transfer employees and managers from one store to another." QuikTrip makes decisions that increase costs in the short term but offer long-run benefits. For example, it invests in "relief... View Details
Keywords: by Julia Hanna; Retail
  • 25 Mar 2021
  • Blog Post

Meet the Student Academic Services Support Team at HBS!

resources available to them in order to best navigate academic and personal circumstances for which they may need support. SAS is available to partner with students to provide support and resources on the many facets of the HBS experience... View Details
  • September–October 2019
  • Article

How Purchase Probability Scales Can Shed Light on Consumer Purchase Intentions

By: Rene Befurt and Alvin J. Silk
Market researchers generally, and survey experts specifically, study consumers to learn about their behavior: What are consumers’ opinions, attitudes, thoughts, and actions at the various stages of the buying process? Especially in litigation cases, these and other... View Details
Keywords: Purchase Intentions; Buying Process; Consumer Behavior; Surveys
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  • September 2016
  • Article

When 3+1>4: Gift Structure and Reciprocity in the Field

By: Duncan S. Gilchrist, Michael Luca and Deepak Malhotra
Do higher wages elicit reciprocity and lead to increased productivity? In a field experiment with 266 employees, we find that paying higher wages, per se, does not have a discernible effect on productivity (in a context with no future employment opportunities).... View Details
Keywords: Wages; Performance Productivity
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  • 01 Jan 2004
  • News

  • 04 Jul 2021
  • News

Would the Founders Have Applauded Our Handling of COVID-19?

  • 20 Jun 2019
  • News

What Tech Pioneers Can Learn From Emerging Markets

  • December 2024
  • Article

Managerial Pluralism: Thirty Years of Teaching Business Ethics

By: Joseph L. Badaracco
The author reflects on 30 years of teaching business ethics at Harvard Business School. The paper presents tactical lessons for teaching courses in professional ethics and introduces “managerial pluralism.” This concept is akin to Isaiah Berlin’s value pluralism and... View Details
Keywords: Business Education; Ethics; Judgments
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  • July 19, 2021
  • Article

Do Most Family Businesses Really Fail by the Third Generation?

By: Josh Baron and Rob Lachenauer
Perhaps the most commonly-cited statistic about family businesses is their failure rates. Most articles or speeches about family businesses start with some version of the “three-generation rule,” which suggests that most don’t survive beyond three generations. But that... View Details
Keywords: Family Business; Success; Perception
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